Adobe Color Lava for Photoshop lets you create themed color swatches on the iPad. When Adobe Color Lava is connected to Photoshop, you can set Adobe Color Lava swatches as the foreground color. You can also add Adobe Color Lava colors to the Photoshop Swatches panel as you work. Or, you can e-mail Adobe Color Lava themes as swatch libraries to share them with other people on other computers.
For a video tutorial on using Adobe Color Lava,
visit the Adobe CS5.5 update page of the NAPP
website. Or see Russell Brown’s Photoshop apps update video for information
about new Adobe Color Lava features for the iPad
2.
- A.
- Clean finger well
- B.
- Canvas
- C.
- Color wells
- D.
- Swatches
- E.
- Connect to Photoshop
- F.
- Switch to Theme Library mode
- G.
- Load a photo
Mix colors in Adobe Color Lava
To mix colors in Adobe Color Lava, select colors from the sample wells and then “paint” with your finger on the canvas.
To load a color, tap its color well. The selected color has a thicker white border.
To switch between RGB and grayscale, tap the inner ring of the color wells.
To edit hue, saturation, and brightness values, double-tap a color well. To accept the HSB settings, tap
.To remove color from your fingertip, tap the clean finger well once or twice.
To reset the color wells to their defaults, tap
.To erase the canvas, tap
.To create a new theme, tap the New button.
To load a photo into the canvas, tap the camera icon
. Then,
choose an image from an iPad photo album.
Work with swatches in Adobe Color Lava
Swatch sets appear on the right side of the Adobe Color Lava app. The active, or selected, swatch is larger than the other four swatches.
To select a swatch, tap it. When you mix colors, Adobe Color Lava replaces the color in the selected swatch with the color you are painting.
To set a swatch as the foreground color in Photoshop, tap it.
To edit swatch sets, tap the Theme Library mode button
.
Manage themes in Adobe Color Lava
Theme Library mode allows you to work with up to 300 swatch sets, or themes.
- A.
- Color themes
- B.
- Edit themes
- C.
- Switch to Color Mixer mode
- D.
- Connect to Photoshop
To select a theme, tap it.
To edit the selected theme, tap the Color Mixer mode button
.To set a swatch in a theme as the foreground color in Photoshop, tap it.
To see the RGB, HSL, and hexadecimal values for each swatch in a theme, double-tap the theme.
Adobe Color Lava theme details.To rename or delete a theme, tap the Edit button or touch and hold a theme. Then, do one of the following:
Tap the X in the upper-left corner of a theme to delete it.
Tap a theme name to rename it.
Share Adobe Color Lava themes
For instructions on how to connect Photoshop and Adobe Color Lava, see Connecting Photoshop companion apps to Photoshop.
When you are connected to Photoshop, tap
to
enter Theme Library mode.Tap a theme twice to open the theme details. Then, tap either of the following buttons:
- Send To Photoshop
- Theme colors appear in the Swatches panel.
- Opens an e-mail message so you can send the theme to someone. The e-mail includes a .png preview of the theme, a .png preview of the canvas, and a .ase swatch library file. For instructions on loading a swatch library in Photoshop, see Manage swatch libraries.
